CAPPE

CURRENT RESEARCH

Technologies Program:

This
program deals with risks and responsibilities relating to research into
technologies that combine with or add to existing technologies, including
ethical issues in bio/nanotechnology, computing and IT.

Poverty Program:

This program focuses on building an ethically and empirically based account of what development is, what standards it ought to use, and the like. Issues addressed include the measurement of poverty and global minimal labour standards.

Health Program:

This program will conduct research in relation to a range of interconnected ethical issues in the public health domain.

Ecology Program:

This program examines a
range of issues in environmental ethics, including ethical issues related to
existing and potential anthropogenic climate change.

Economy Program:

This program focuses on a number of central ethical issues arising in the economic sphere, including corporate responsibility and economic corruption.

Security Program:

This program focuses on the ethical
dimensions of a range of current domestic and international security problems,
including ethical issues pertaining to terrorism, crime, and humanitarian
intervention.

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WHAT'S NEW

What's new in CAPPE publications?

CAPPE Canberra Seminar

Tuesday March 3, 2015 5.15pm

Dr Sadjad Soltanzadeh (CSU)
and Dr Mitchell Mooney (AIS)

Was there a miracle in Miracle?: Theorizing about team performance More

Professor Marilyn Friedman

Ethical Issues in Political Violence and State Sovereignty

Biography

Marilyn Friedman is currently working
on a project on female terrorists: the various meanings, motivations, and
degree of moral responsibility involved when terrorists are women. She is also working on an account of what is
normatively required to hold someone morally responsible for their behavior,
but an account that focuses on features of those who hold responsible rather
than of those who are held responsible. These features involve attempting to understand the perspective of the
accused, features that are especially important when holding someone
responsible for disputed political crimes such as terrorism. Friedman’s most
recent authored book, Autonomy, Gender, Politics
(Oxford, 2003), defends the importance of personal autonomy for women. The book devotes special attention to
problems of domestic violence and women’s apparent rights violations in some
cultural minority communities within liberal societies.

Fields of special interest

Female Terrorists

Women's Rights

Cultural Diversity

Recent Publications

Books

Women and Citizenship (Edited). New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.